ASU was founded in 1885 as the Territorial Normal School of Tempe. 20 acres of cow pasture donated by Tempe residents George & Martha Wilson, allowed for 33 students to meet in a 4-classroom building, the first institution of higher education in AZ. In the 1920s the Alumni Association led political efforts to rename the Normal School and advance to a more robust teachers college curriculum. In 1923 admission requirements were raised to a high school diploma. The Tempe State Teachers College established in 1925 boasted 41 faculty and 672 students, by 1929 the Arizona State Teacher's College offered a 4-yr year curriculum leading to the Bachelor of Education. Arizona State College at Tempe dropped the teacher's college appellation in 1945. In 1958 the governor signed an executive order creating Arizona State University.
Today ASU has 1532 Acres (662 in Tempe), enrollment of 135,729 (77,881 on campus, 57,848 digital), $1.47 Billion endowment, USN&WR No. 105 public school, WSJ No. 72
Famous alumni include Original Tonight Show host Steve Allen, Jimmy Kimmel, Nick Nolte, 11X Grammy winner Linda Ronstadt, David Spade, Lynda Carter, Al Michaels, Alabama AD Greg Byrne, Diamondbacks pres. Derrick Hall, StockTwits founder Howard Lindzon, Under Armour co-founder Ryan Wood, AZ Governor Katie Hobbs & former govs Doug Ducey, Jane Dee Hull, Evan Mecham, Golfer Phil Mickelson, Barry Bonds, Reggie Jackson, Sal Bando, Rick Monday, Andre Ethier, NFL HOF’ers Curly Culp, Mike Haynes, John Henry Johnson, Randall McDaniel, Charley Taylor.
ASU Athletics: 24 NCAA championships: Men - 5 baseball, 2 golf, T&F, indoor T&F, gymnastics, wrestling; Women - 8 golf, 2 softball, 2 indoor T&F, women’s T&F; 179 Olympians – 25 Gold medals, 12 Silver, 23 Bronze
Colors - Maroon & Gold, nickname Sun Devils (since 1946, was Bulldogs (Arizona St Teacher’s College) and Owls (Tempe Normal School), Mascot – Sparky, Fight Songs – Maroon & Gold, and Go, Go Sun Devils.
Basketball started 1911 (1466-1305, .529), 3 Elite Eights (last 1975), 5 Sweet Sixteens, 17 NCAA appearances, 4 WAC & 4 BIAA conference championships, 2 AP All-Americans - James Harden, Ike Diogu. Harden’s No. 13 jersey is retired, honored jerseys (still available): 5- Eddie House, Ike Diogu, 11 – Byron Scott, 12 – Fat Lever, 32 - Joe Caldwell, 33 – Lionel Hollins, 53 – Alton Lister), 38 NBA draft picks (9 1st round - Caldwell, Hollins, Lister, Scott, Mario Bennett, Diogu, Harden, Josh Christopher)
Winningest coaches: Ned Wulk 406-272, .599, Herb Sendek 159-137, .537, Bobby Hurley 154-126, .550
Current Bobby Hurley – 9th season, 3 NCAA appearances, previous Buffalo Bulls (MAC) 42-20, .677, 1 NCAA appearance
Currently: 14-15 (8-10) - W: Texas Southern, UMass Lowell, Vandy, Sam Houston St, USF, SMU, Stanford, Cal, Utah, Colorado, USC, Utah, OSU, WSU; L: Miss St, BYU, USD, TCU, Northwestern, UW 2, UCLA, Oregon, OSU, Stanford, Cal, Colorado, Arizona 2
All-time: USC leads 63-43, .590 (ASU won last game)
ASU NET 126, KenPom 115, SC NET 96, KenPom 94
ASU Scores: 70.1 ppg (-3.6), 41.9% FG, 30.8% 3FG, 7.0 3’s/g, 66.0% FT. Rebounds 33.5 pg (-7.6), Assists 12.2 pg, TOs 10.4 pg (+3.2), Steals 8.2 pg, Blks 3.7 pg
ASU Leaders:
Scoring: Frankie Collins 13.8 ppg (42.3% FG, 30.6% 3FG, 58.1% FT), Jose Perez 13.1 ppg (42.4% FG, 41.5% 3FG, 72.2% FT), Adam Miller 12.1 ppg (40.9% FG, 33.0% 3FG, 83.6% FT), Jamiya Neal 11.5 ppg (41.9% FG, 27.8% 3FG, 68.3% FT)
Rebounding: Neal 5.5 rpg, Collins 4.6; Assists - Collins 3.3 apg, Perez 2.7; Steals – Collins 2.7 stpg (Pac No. 1), Blks – Alonzo Gaffney 1.2 (Pac No. 5)
SC scores: 74.4 ppg (-0.4), 45.1% FG, 35.2% 3FG, 7.6 3’s/g, 68.6% FT, Rebs 34.4 rpg (-2.0), Assists 15.6 apg, TOs 12.5 pg (+0.8), 14.4 ppg/TO, Steals 7.2, Blks 5.2 (Pac No. 1)
SC Leaders
Scoring: Collier 17.0 ppg (49.6% FG, 32.9% 3FG, 66.9% FT), Boogie 16.6 ppg (42.6% FG, 41.0% 3FG, 2.9 3’s/g (Pac No. 1), 72.2% FT), Kobe 10.2 ppg (38.4% FG, 28.8% 3FG, 69.8% FT)
Rebounds: DJ 5.0 pg, Kobe 4.4, Vince 4.0, Assists – Collier 4.1 apg (Pac No. 6), Kobe 3.3; Steals Kobe 2.1 (Pac No. 2), Blks – Josh 2.3 (Pac No. 1)
Pregame
No Crash today, he is among a busload of students at the women’s Pac-12 tournament game in Las Vegas.
There was a pretty low turnout at the Founder’s Room, were they also in Vegas or just discouraged by this season? Jay Morris must’ve drawn the short straw and he is in a rush to get out of there, so his update was short and his Q&A period shorter.
He says the season hasn’t turned out the way anyone wanted, but the adage says you want to be playing your best basketball at the end of the season and they feel they finally are. He says they should be on a 5-game win streak but let a couple of wins slip away. They lost the game at ASU because they had 22 TOs and they have worked hard on trying to correct that, by playing 5 vs 6 or 7 defenders to make it tougher on the offense than it should be in the game and by reviewing film of their TOs.
Someone asks about Hornery, he says Harry is one of their best shooters, but unfortunately when he gets into games he doesn’t shoot very well, but he has a good feeling about Harry tonight. He tells the room “Fight On”, and is done – I timed the whole appearance at 4.5 minutes.
A late arriving crowd will build to an announced 6841 attendees. Among the crowd courtside is Lebron James, rockin’ SC gear and “U N” ballcap and his wife Savanah, his high school sweetheart from rival schools in Akron, OH. NFL Offensive Rookie of the Year CJ Stroud (Houston Texans via Ohio State and Rancho Cucamonga HS) is here. Emmy-nominated actress, producer, and current SC student Storm Reid is here with her mother. Missing from his usual spot is incoming FR PG Trent Perry, who is trying to lead Harvard-Westlake to a CIF Open Division state title over Salesian on Saturday, after defeating Carlsbad and Roosevelt.
The Game
The starting lineup remains Boogie, Kobe, Josh, DJ, Collier. Arrinten Page is out sick and Kijani has been relegated to the end of the bench. Despite denials from the coaches, could they be forcing him into the portal after this season?
The tip is controlled by SC, but ASU’s Frankie Collins gets the first bucket. Boogie hits a 3 to give SC the 3-2 lead. He would score 8 of SC’s first 13 pts. It would be back and forth with ASU making 11-23 FGs (47.8%) but only two 3s and SC making 10-27 FGs (37%) but six 3s (Boogie-2, Kobe-2, Oziyah, Collier). SC took its largest lead of 9 pts 18-9 at 12:46 but was outscored by ASU 23-13 to trail 32-31 with 42 secs remaining. Collier’s FT tied it 32-32 as the first half ended.
SC outrebounded ASU 18-12 in the half a good sign for a weak rebounding team. However, it came against the worst rebounding margin team in the conference as ASU gets outrebounded by an average 7.6 rebs/g.
Second Half
ASU continued to shoot a high percentage from the field (52% on 13-25) but a dismal 1-8 on 3-pt attempts (12.5%). SC shot even better 12-21 (57.1% FG) and made 7-11 3FGs (63.6%). The long-distance shooting was really the difference in the game as SC was 12-24 (50%) and ASU 3-16 (18.8%), a difference of 27 pts!
ASU led only once in the second half 51-49 at 11:45, but that lead lasted only 16 secs, before Boogie’s 3-ptr put SC up by 1. SC led by 7 (75-68) after Collier hit 2 FTs at 2:29. DJ Malski inexplicably told everyone to get on their feet and started a ‘We Are - SC chant’. I yelled from my seats across the arena, “No! Stop! It’s too early for that!” That’s all we needed – was to think that the game was in the bag, given our penchant for blowing leads. I’m glad our team didn’t listen and kept playing, stretching the lead to 11 at 81-70 with 30 secs remaining and held on for the 81-73 victory.
For the game:
ASU shot 50% FG (24-48), 18.8% 3FG (3-16), 73.3% FT (22-30)
SC shot 45.8% FG (22-48), 50% 3FG (12-24), 83.3% FT (25-30)
For ASU, Jose Perez had his way on the inside, scoring 25 pts on 7-12 FG & 11-11 FTs. He was most responsible for ASU’s 32-14 pts in the paint advantage. Adam Miller had 18 and leading scorer Frankie Collins was held to 11 pts on just 6 shot attempts, though he did maintain his sizeable conference lead with 4 steals.
SC led in 2nd chance pts 13-7, fastbreak pts 18-13 and bench pts 11-7. SC won the reb battle 32-22 but had 14 TOs to only 6 for ASU. Nine players played at least 9 mins, 7 scored, but Bronny and Hornery were both 0-2 from the field, missing their only 3-pt attempts.
Boogie led with 28 pts, including 6-8 3FGs, his 5fth time this season with 28 or more and 10th of his career. His 218 3-ptrs at SC ties Brandon Granville for 5th in school history (Jonah Mathews 1st with 247).
Kobe was next with 15 pts, his most since 21 vs. Stanford on Jan. 6. He was 3-for-5 on 3’s and is 11-24 in his last 8 games (45.8% 3FG).
Collier had 5 assists for 100 total, just outside of the USC Freshman Top 10. Daniel Hackett (2007) ranks 10th with 103. Collier leads Pac-12 freshmen in scoring (17.0 ppg), FT made (4.0 pg), assists (4.1 pg) and steals (1.57 pg).
Josh had 8 rebs, most since Nov 19 (Brown - 9). He matched his career high with 6 FTs made (6-for-6). This, from a guy who was averaging 55.3% on FTs.
SC goes to 13-17 (7-12) and ASU falls to 14-16 (8-11). Enfield’s 218th win at SC moves him behind Forrest Twogood (251) and Sam Barry (260) on the all-time wins list. We currently project as the 11th seed in the conference tournament, but with a win over No. 5 AZ Saturday at 7pm (ESPN), may be able to move up a spot or two, depending on the outcomes of other games.
Fight On! Beat the Wildcats!
Today ASU has 1532 Acres (662 in Tempe), enrollment of 135,729 (77,881 on campus, 57,848 digital), $1.47 Billion endowment, USN&WR No. 105 public school, WSJ No. 72
Famous alumni include Original Tonight Show host Steve Allen, Jimmy Kimmel, Nick Nolte, 11X Grammy winner Linda Ronstadt, David Spade, Lynda Carter, Al Michaels, Alabama AD Greg Byrne, Diamondbacks pres. Derrick Hall, StockTwits founder Howard Lindzon, Under Armour co-founder Ryan Wood, AZ Governor Katie Hobbs & former govs Doug Ducey, Jane Dee Hull, Evan Mecham, Golfer Phil Mickelson, Barry Bonds, Reggie Jackson, Sal Bando, Rick Monday, Andre Ethier, NFL HOF’ers Curly Culp, Mike Haynes, John Henry Johnson, Randall McDaniel, Charley Taylor.
ASU Athletics: 24 NCAA championships: Men - 5 baseball, 2 golf, T&F, indoor T&F, gymnastics, wrestling; Women - 8 golf, 2 softball, 2 indoor T&F, women’s T&F; 179 Olympians – 25 Gold medals, 12 Silver, 23 Bronze
Colors - Maroon & Gold, nickname Sun Devils (since 1946, was Bulldogs (Arizona St Teacher’s College) and Owls (Tempe Normal School), Mascot – Sparky, Fight Songs – Maroon & Gold, and Go, Go Sun Devils.
Basketball started 1911 (1466-1305, .529), 3 Elite Eights (last 1975), 5 Sweet Sixteens, 17 NCAA appearances, 4 WAC & 4 BIAA conference championships, 2 AP All-Americans - James Harden, Ike Diogu. Harden’s No. 13 jersey is retired, honored jerseys (still available): 5- Eddie House, Ike Diogu, 11 – Byron Scott, 12 – Fat Lever, 32 - Joe Caldwell, 33 – Lionel Hollins, 53 – Alton Lister), 38 NBA draft picks (9 1st round - Caldwell, Hollins, Lister, Scott, Mario Bennett, Diogu, Harden, Josh Christopher)
Winningest coaches: Ned Wulk 406-272, .599, Herb Sendek 159-137, .537, Bobby Hurley 154-126, .550
Current Bobby Hurley – 9th season, 3 NCAA appearances, previous Buffalo Bulls (MAC) 42-20, .677, 1 NCAA appearance
Currently: 14-15 (8-10) - W: Texas Southern, UMass Lowell, Vandy, Sam Houston St, USF, SMU, Stanford, Cal, Utah, Colorado, USC, Utah, OSU, WSU; L: Miss St, BYU, USD, TCU, Northwestern, UW 2, UCLA, Oregon, OSU, Stanford, Cal, Colorado, Arizona 2
All-time: USC leads 63-43, .590 (ASU won last game)
ASU NET 126, KenPom 115, SC NET 96, KenPom 94
ASU Scores: 70.1 ppg (-3.6), 41.9% FG, 30.8% 3FG, 7.0 3’s/g, 66.0% FT. Rebounds 33.5 pg (-7.6), Assists 12.2 pg, TOs 10.4 pg (+3.2), Steals 8.2 pg, Blks 3.7 pg
ASU Leaders:
Scoring: Frankie Collins 13.8 ppg (42.3% FG, 30.6% 3FG, 58.1% FT), Jose Perez 13.1 ppg (42.4% FG, 41.5% 3FG, 72.2% FT), Adam Miller 12.1 ppg (40.9% FG, 33.0% 3FG, 83.6% FT), Jamiya Neal 11.5 ppg (41.9% FG, 27.8% 3FG, 68.3% FT)
Rebounding: Neal 5.5 rpg, Collins 4.6; Assists - Collins 3.3 apg, Perez 2.7; Steals – Collins 2.7 stpg (Pac No. 1), Blks – Alonzo Gaffney 1.2 (Pac No. 5)
SC scores: 74.4 ppg (-0.4), 45.1% FG, 35.2% 3FG, 7.6 3’s/g, 68.6% FT, Rebs 34.4 rpg (-2.0), Assists 15.6 apg, TOs 12.5 pg (+0.8), 14.4 ppg/TO, Steals 7.2, Blks 5.2 (Pac No. 1)
SC Leaders
Scoring: Collier 17.0 ppg (49.6% FG, 32.9% 3FG, 66.9% FT), Boogie 16.6 ppg (42.6% FG, 41.0% 3FG, 2.9 3’s/g (Pac No. 1), 72.2% FT), Kobe 10.2 ppg (38.4% FG, 28.8% 3FG, 69.8% FT)
Rebounds: DJ 5.0 pg, Kobe 4.4, Vince 4.0, Assists – Collier 4.1 apg (Pac No. 6), Kobe 3.3; Steals Kobe 2.1 (Pac No. 2), Blks – Josh 2.3 (Pac No. 1)
Pregame
No Crash today, he is among a busload of students at the women’s Pac-12 tournament game in Las Vegas.
There was a pretty low turnout at the Founder’s Room, were they also in Vegas or just discouraged by this season? Jay Morris must’ve drawn the short straw and he is in a rush to get out of there, so his update was short and his Q&A period shorter.
He says the season hasn’t turned out the way anyone wanted, but the adage says you want to be playing your best basketball at the end of the season and they feel they finally are. He says they should be on a 5-game win streak but let a couple of wins slip away. They lost the game at ASU because they had 22 TOs and they have worked hard on trying to correct that, by playing 5 vs 6 or 7 defenders to make it tougher on the offense than it should be in the game and by reviewing film of their TOs.
Someone asks about Hornery, he says Harry is one of their best shooters, but unfortunately when he gets into games he doesn’t shoot very well, but he has a good feeling about Harry tonight. He tells the room “Fight On”, and is done – I timed the whole appearance at 4.5 minutes.
A late arriving crowd will build to an announced 6841 attendees. Among the crowd courtside is Lebron James, rockin’ SC gear and “U N” ballcap and his wife Savanah, his high school sweetheart from rival schools in Akron, OH. NFL Offensive Rookie of the Year CJ Stroud (Houston Texans via Ohio State and Rancho Cucamonga HS) is here. Emmy-nominated actress, producer, and current SC student Storm Reid is here with her mother. Missing from his usual spot is incoming FR PG Trent Perry, who is trying to lead Harvard-Westlake to a CIF Open Division state title over Salesian on Saturday, after defeating Carlsbad and Roosevelt.
The Game
The starting lineup remains Boogie, Kobe, Josh, DJ, Collier. Arrinten Page is out sick and Kijani has been relegated to the end of the bench. Despite denials from the coaches, could they be forcing him into the portal after this season?
The tip is controlled by SC, but ASU’s Frankie Collins gets the first bucket. Boogie hits a 3 to give SC the 3-2 lead. He would score 8 of SC’s first 13 pts. It would be back and forth with ASU making 11-23 FGs (47.8%) but only two 3s and SC making 10-27 FGs (37%) but six 3s (Boogie-2, Kobe-2, Oziyah, Collier). SC took its largest lead of 9 pts 18-9 at 12:46 but was outscored by ASU 23-13 to trail 32-31 with 42 secs remaining. Collier’s FT tied it 32-32 as the first half ended.
SC outrebounded ASU 18-12 in the half a good sign for a weak rebounding team. However, it came against the worst rebounding margin team in the conference as ASU gets outrebounded by an average 7.6 rebs/g.
Second Half
ASU continued to shoot a high percentage from the field (52% on 13-25) but a dismal 1-8 on 3-pt attempts (12.5%). SC shot even better 12-21 (57.1% FG) and made 7-11 3FGs (63.6%). The long-distance shooting was really the difference in the game as SC was 12-24 (50%) and ASU 3-16 (18.8%), a difference of 27 pts!
ASU led only once in the second half 51-49 at 11:45, but that lead lasted only 16 secs, before Boogie’s 3-ptr put SC up by 1. SC led by 7 (75-68) after Collier hit 2 FTs at 2:29. DJ Malski inexplicably told everyone to get on their feet and started a ‘We Are - SC chant’. I yelled from my seats across the arena, “No! Stop! It’s too early for that!” That’s all we needed – was to think that the game was in the bag, given our penchant for blowing leads. I’m glad our team didn’t listen and kept playing, stretching the lead to 11 at 81-70 with 30 secs remaining and held on for the 81-73 victory.
For the game:
ASU shot 50% FG (24-48), 18.8% 3FG (3-16), 73.3% FT (22-30)
SC shot 45.8% FG (22-48), 50% 3FG (12-24), 83.3% FT (25-30)
For ASU, Jose Perez had his way on the inside, scoring 25 pts on 7-12 FG & 11-11 FTs. He was most responsible for ASU’s 32-14 pts in the paint advantage. Adam Miller had 18 and leading scorer Frankie Collins was held to 11 pts on just 6 shot attempts, though he did maintain his sizeable conference lead with 4 steals.
SC led in 2nd chance pts 13-7, fastbreak pts 18-13 and bench pts 11-7. SC won the reb battle 32-22 but had 14 TOs to only 6 for ASU. Nine players played at least 9 mins, 7 scored, but Bronny and Hornery were both 0-2 from the field, missing their only 3-pt attempts.
Boogie led with 28 pts, including 6-8 3FGs, his 5fth time this season with 28 or more and 10th of his career. His 218 3-ptrs at SC ties Brandon Granville for 5th in school history (Jonah Mathews 1st with 247).
Kobe was next with 15 pts, his most since 21 vs. Stanford on Jan. 6. He was 3-for-5 on 3’s and is 11-24 in his last 8 games (45.8% 3FG).
Collier had 5 assists for 100 total, just outside of the USC Freshman Top 10. Daniel Hackett (2007) ranks 10th with 103. Collier leads Pac-12 freshmen in scoring (17.0 ppg), FT made (4.0 pg), assists (4.1 pg) and steals (1.57 pg).
Josh had 8 rebs, most since Nov 19 (Brown - 9). He matched his career high with 6 FTs made (6-for-6). This, from a guy who was averaging 55.3% on FTs.
SC goes to 13-17 (7-12) and ASU falls to 14-16 (8-11). Enfield’s 218th win at SC moves him behind Forrest Twogood (251) and Sam Barry (260) on the all-time wins list. We currently project as the 11th seed in the conference tournament, but with a win over No. 5 AZ Saturday at 7pm (ESPN), may be able to move up a spot or two, depending on the outcomes of other games.
Fight On! Beat the Wildcats!
